objective of course is to helps students

Everyone is in need of comfortable happy spaces today that promote happiness and well-being. While, many things have changed in the creation of homes today with respect to architecture, interior design is highly popular now and brings in an advanced approach to transform existing places. This course is not only about interior designing but it blends both architecture and interior designing under various disciplines of art and science right from civil engineering to structural and more. While the whole industry is driven now by CAD tools today for presentation of designs, this course provides a comfortable space for all students to become well-versed in exterior and interior views. The main objective of this course is to help students put diverse architectural principles into practice while designing spaces that retain the quality of the structure.

1. Architectural concepts
A guide to architectural
design concepts

2. How can I express a concept?
1. Diagrams: drawings of geometric shapes to show different relationships
within any given space.

3. 2. Parti: a type of diagram that serves as a
general idea to figure out a building's
program or layout . They are usually in the
form of quick sketches or even 3D models.
How can I express a concept?

4. Examples..
•Parti model

5. 3. Morphology:
the study of the forms of things, in particular.

7. Diagrams Examples...

9. Conceptual models
Yes you can turn your idea into a model!
Conceptual model can be used to express:
•Layersof a project; vertical, horizontal and rotated planes.
•Outer Shell.
•Circulation, whether vertical or horizontal and types.
•Materials andcolors
•Any construction issues
•Coherence with Topography
•Any other idea u want to communicate

10. Analogy & Metaphor

11. Definition
•Analogy : a similarity between like features of two things, on which a
comparison may be based.
•Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information from a
particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject
(the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a proccess.

12. •Analogy: A comparison based on such similarity;
a. superficial analogy: to take the same shape of sth without any change.
(direct)
b. structural analogy: to make a structure of building from a shape or
something.
c. holistic analogy: combination of both.

13. Metaphor
•Metaphorisa literary termwhich means "carrying-over and a synonym is
the word transfer.
•Itassociatesmeanings,emotions, things , times and places which
otherwise wouldnot have been related.

14. Examples…
•Savtiago Calatra?a ….. E?e ovept

15. Tornado Tower,
(designed by Manuel Gausa ACTAR Arquitectura,2001, Barcelona)
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16. Concert Hall
by Santiago Calatrava , the City of Arts (Valencia).
•The overt hall features the arhitet’s sigvature ?ivg effet –a single
wing that seems to enfold the building without covering it entirely.

17. The shape of the spar and its cables is said to evoke an image of a harp lying
on its edge